officer class
Commissioned rank holders
The officer class is the social stratum from which military officers traditionally come—typically the upper or upper-middle class.
The term reflects historical patterns where commissioned officers were drawn from wealthy, educated families while enlisted ranks came from the working class.
By extension, it describes any elite group that commands rather than executes: The tech industry has its own officer class of executives who've never written a line of code.
- militaryArmed forces collectively
- eliteSuperior select group
- upper crustSocial elite class
- aristocracyRule by hereditary elite
- commissionedFormally assigned a task
rank · chain of command · brass · gentleman · academy · parade ground · dress uniform · uniform · command · privilege · hierarchy · nobility · regiment · cavalry · military academy · mess · mess hall · epaulettes
- ranksrank and file, enlisted ranks, tier one, tier two, enlisted rank
- war literaturewar stories, war novels, war diary, war journal, war poetry
officer classenlisted personnel
Non-commissioned military members
enlisted ranks · enlisted men · rank and file · privates · enlisted soldiers
officer classworking class
Manual laborers collectively
commoners · common people · lower classes · proletariat · peasantry
officer, class, office, officers, classes, official, officially, unofficial, officiate